Review Article
Children with Generalised Joint Hypermobility and Musculoskeletal Complaints: State of the Art on Diagnostics, Clinical Characteristics, and Treatment
Table 3
Critical appraisal of included study designs, risk of bias.
| | | | Items | | Remarks | | | | Treatment allocation | Blinding | Loss to follow-up |
Total score | | Study | Eligibility
criteria | Randomized | Concealed
allocation | Baseline
comparability | Subjects | Therapists | Assessors | Measures obtained in 85% of all initially included subjects | Intention to treat | Group
comparison reported | Point measures and
measures of variability reported |
| van Brussel et al.,
(2008) [73] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes1 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8/10 |
1Corrections were applied |
| Mintz-Itkin et al.,
(2009) [61] | Yes | No2 | No2 | Yes | No | No | No | No3 | No | Yes | Yes | 3/10 |
2No randomization method was specified
3No data on loss to follow-up was presented |
| Kemp et al.,
(2009) [59] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes4 | No | No3 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 6/10 |
3Therapists were blinded for disease characteristics
4No formal statistical data was presented in which baseline comparability was ascertained |
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